“It’s been 55 years since I moved from Osaka to Tokyo, and Osaka is a place that I miss infinitely. Now that 55 years have passed since I moved to Tokyo from Osaka, Osaka is now an infinitely nostalgic place for me. Sometimes a simple song I happen to hear fills my vision with images of the city of that time.”
– Daido Moriyama, from the essay “Osaka no koto”

Osaka, edited by Daido Moriyama himself, is the definitive edition compiling images from the book “Osaka +” (Gekyosha, 2007) and a collection of other works not included in the book.

All images in the book have been photographed in Osaka between 1995 and 2006. This edition further includes the essays “Osaka no koto” (in Japanese) and “Dark Pictures” (in English) and a chronological record.